This weekend’s horror offering “Jennifer’s Body” is more of a hoot than a scream.

And that suits us just fine.

We’re wrung out by the charnel- house cruelties of so many horror flicks aimed at teens, where the questions are: What’s the body count? Can we get the bloody details?

This winking pleasure stars Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried as childhood best friends, starting to feel the strain of their diverging interests in high school. It has gore and menace. But it’s short on cruelty and cynicism.

Penned by “Juno” scribe Diablo Cody, the movie is mostly popcorn with some salt added about the place of women in a genre that can be especially brutal to them. The film’s first words: “Hell is a teenage girl.”

Evil arrives in the come-hither form of Devil’s Kettle denizen Jennifer Check. Fox, of “Transformers” infamy, is the high-school hottie who’s outgrown her small town.

Seyfried, of the blockbuster “Mamma Mia!” is studious friend Anita. Although nicknamed “Needy,” the moniker describes her handmaid relationship to Jennifer more than her personality in general.

After all, she has believably sweet boyfriend Chip (Johnny Simmons) and is able to make friends with others, like Goth sensitive Colin (Kyle Gallner).

The film opens with Anita incarcerated and unfolds as a recounting. How did a nice girl like her wind up in a place for the criminally unhinged?

One thing made clear by “Jennifer’s Body”: Cody knows her way around snappy dialogue.

This from the trailer in which Anita shares her suspicions with Chip: “Jennifer’s evil.” “I know,” he replies. “No, I mean she’s actually evil, not high-school evil.”

Jennifer’s transformation from mean to possessed takes place after a concert. The scene borrows its misery from the Great White conflagration that took place at a Rhode Island club a few years back.

When the roadside tavern combusts, the lead singer of Low Shoulder (Adam Brody) and his bandmates leave with Jennifer. What happens to Jennifer, who can usually talk her way into and out of trouble, is a nicely calibrated mix of the wicked and the wrenching.

The filmmakers are also skilled with the ridiculous (a collection of woodland creatures makes a cameo) as well as the sublime. The tart inclusion of Hole’s quasi-riot-grrrl growl “Violet” is a bit of genius. Girl-power duo Kusama and Cody owe something to that edgy musical tradition.

Ben Platt, who more than three years ago spoke the words and sang the music of “Dear Evan Hansen” for the first time, going on to win the Tony Award in June for best actor in a musical, will leave the celebrated musical in the fall, the show’s producers announced Monday.